Uses of RFID and NFC technologies in AAL Communications for Health: A Literature Review

During the last years, there has been an increasing interest for the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) communications, since life expectancy and population aging have been incrementing thanks to the advances in medicine and health care. This paper presents an academic literature review of the use of RFID and NFC technologies for AAL communications and also proposes a new original system of the use of NFC in health. The search systems and databases used were IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed. The search returned a total of 48 papers. The new system proposed consists of two modules, one for high risk patients and other for emergency services. The module of the patient involves a NFC tag embedded in a garment he always wears. When placing it next to his mobile phone, the garment activates an application that makes a call and sends his location and relevant data of his health condition to the emergency services. There is very little research done in RFID and NFC applied to AAL compared to other application fields and the most researched applications are monitoring systems and tools for medication control and prescription.

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